auntpiggylpn

The first week of July, I was off school for a week and did a thorough cleaning of my sewing room, I went through all of my fabrics. I knew that I had too much and of course there was the "what was I thinking" fabrics. Some fabrics I just knew I was never going to get around to using. There is a member here on the board who doesn't have the resources to purchase fabrics as much as she would like but uses her time to make charity quilts for several organizations in her community. I packed up what I thought she could use for these quilts and sent her a 21# box of fabric via UPS! She was tickled to get it and it made me feel good about paying it forward. What I had left over went to the Goodwill. I have seen my fabrics up on their shopgoodwill site and I get excited when I see how much it brings in for them. I made contact with 2 local charities to give them first dibs and I was turned down. One charitiy wanted to go thru the fabric and take what they wanted and then I would have had to cart away what they didn't want. The second charity told me They had no room for the fabric and wanted me to keep it until they had a need for it. That would have defeated the purpose of getting it out of my sewing room. Rarely does any fabric go into the trash. Like my signature line says "No one ever became poor by giving"